Control of electric motors



June 28, 1938. E. c. B ARWICK 2,122,273

CONTROL OF ELECTRIC MOTORS Filed sefit. a, 1937 Inventor: Emerson C Barvvick,

b H aJWZLQ y Hmttor ney Patented June 28, 1938 v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CONTROL OF ELECTRIC MOTORS Emerson C. Barwick, Pinner, England, assignor to General Electric Company, a corporation of New York Application September 8, 1937, Serial No. 162,903 In Great Britain November 5, 1936 2 Claims. (01. 172-276) This invention relates to the control of electric the transformer secondary windings are conmotors and more particularly to motors of the nected to the induction regulator 8. This regushunt commutator type. lator is of the well-known double construction,

In using the shunt polyphase commutator consisting of two similar regulators having their 5 motor controlled by means of a double inducrotors mounted on a common shaft and their 5 tion regulator, it is found that a resultant torque rotor windings 9 connected in series. The two is exerted by the regulator in some positions in primary windings 10 of the regulator units are spite of the fact that the fluxes rotate in oppoconnected to the alternating current supply 3, site directions, and difiiculties are thereby introand the directions of rotation of the fluxes they 10 duced when automatic speed control is used, as set up are arranged so that movement of the 10 for example, in knitting machines. This torque regulator rotor advances the phase of one secis due to the secondary current bearing a difondary voltage and retards the other. ferent phase relationship to the voltage of one The two units of the regulator can, of course, unit of the regulator from that of the other. be dissimilar, and their rotors may be mounted According to the present invention, I propose on two separate but mechanically coupled shafts 15 to inject a voltage into the secondary circuit by without interfering with the main features of the means of a transformer, an auxiliary winding invention. on the motor stator, or other means, at a phase In Fig. 2 are shown the voltage vectors corangle and of a magnitude such that it advances responding to one position of the regulator.

the phase of the secondary current sufliciently E and E represent the secondary voltages in 20 to bring the phase angles between the current the two units of the regulator, and I1 is the and the two regulator voltages more nearly equal. secondary current shown. in a typical phase po- This has the effect of bringing the torques due sition relative to the two voltages E and E with to the two units of the regulator more nearly normal connections. The torque due to each equal and thereby reducing the resultant torque. unit of the regulator is proportional to the rotor 25 If a transformer is employed to obtain the Voltage and the component of the current in injected voltage its primary will be connected phase with the voltage, so that the resultant in parallel with the primaries of the regulator torque of the two units will be and motor to the supply and its secondary con- 1,0 nected in series with the regulator to the motor Eh 005451 and E I1 C054,

brushgear. The windings of the transformer are If a voltage is injected into the secondary circonnected in such a way that its secondary voltcuit by a method such as has been described age has a component 90 out of phase with the above, the current I1 can be caused to take up primary voltage. This may be done by connecta position I2 where .55 ing the primary of the transformer in delta or by a zig-zag connection of either of the windings, E12 605952 E I2 cospz with equal or unequal components, or by other thereby reducing the resultant torque to zero. similar means. If E and E are equal 62 and z' would also be If the injected voltage is obtained by using made equal but for cases in which E and E 0 an auxiliary winding on the stator of the motor, are unequal, Q52 and &2 require to be unequal 4 its phase will be determined by its physical posiin order to satisfy the equation for zero torque. tion on the stator and is arranged to satisfy It is obvious that zero torque can only be the same requirements as the transformer. obtained for one condition of loading but a value The accompanying drawing illustrates this inof the injected voltage can be chosen so that vention, Fig. 1 being a diagram of connections approximate compensation is obtained over a 45 and Fig. 2 a vector diagram. range of loads.

Fig. 1 shows typical connections for the case What I claim as new and desire to secure by when a transformer is employed. The shunt Letters Patent of the United States is: commutator motor is represented by l and has 1. An alternating-current motor provided with its stator windings 2 connected to the alternatstator and rotor members, the stator member 5 ing current supply 3. The commutator 4 of the being provided with a polyphase primary windmotor is connected to one end of the secondary ing and the rotor member being provided with windings 6 of the transformer 5, which has its a winding connected to a commutator and havprimary windings i connected in delta to the ing brushes bearing on the commutator, a double alternating current supply 3. The other ends of induction regulator having primary windings en- 55 ergized in parallel to the polyphase primary winding of the motor and having secondary windings connected in series and to said brushes, the two primaries of the double induction regulator being connected to produce fluxes which rotate in opposite directions, and means including a transformer having a secondary winding in series with said brushes for injecting a voltage into the secondary circuit of said induction regulator, whereby the phase relation of the current therein is shifted in a direction and to an extent to substantially equalize the reverse torques of the two parts of the double induction regulator for the average regulating condition thereof.

2. In combination, a polyphase commutator motor having commutator brushes, a double induction regulator for regulation of said motor, said regulator having primary windings energized in parallel to produce reversely rotating fluxes and having secondary windings connected in series to said brushes, and a transformer having a delta-connected primary winding energized in parallel with the primary windings of the double induction regulator and a secondary winding in series with the secondary windings of the induction regulator, said transformer serving to shift the phase angle of the current flowing in the secondary windings of the induction regulator in such direction as will tend to compensate for the difierence in torques of the two parts of the double induction regulator.

EMERSON C. BARWICK. 

